Greetings All –
I
will not hold myself apart today. Step 250 (MP3) [Open
in Drive or copy to your Drive – Download folder or play from Drive – Step PDF
also.]
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| I will not hold myself apart today. Step 250 |
YOU
CAN ONLY BE ALONE IN FANTASY, and fantasy will yield you nothing of value,
permanence or meaning. Do not betray your Knowledge today by holding yourself
apart. Do not punish yourself for errors which have no substance and which are
in fact only an expression of confusion. There is no justification for error,
and there is no justification for holding yourself apart. You are a part of
life and you will need to rely upon your relationships with others and with
life as a whole to accomplish anything, even to survive.
AS
YOU THINK ABOUT THIS, gratitude will naturally arise within you, and you will
realize that the ground upon which you walk and everything that you see and
touch that is useful and beneficial is the result of giving and cooperation. Then,
your gratitude will bring forth love naturally, and from your love you will
begin to understand how all things are accomplished in the universe. This will
give you strength and the assurance of what you yourself must learn to do.
UPON
THE HOUR REMEMBER THIS, and in your deeper meditations allow yourself to
receive. Do not hold yourself apart from Knowledge, which waits to bless you in
your meditation practices. This is when you come to the altar of God to present
yourself, and here God presents God to you who are learning to receive
Knowledge.
PRACTICE
250: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.
Picture:
Minneapolis Convention Center park.
Plan B - If the MP3 doesn’t work, here’s the link
to the folder: New Message - Student Spoken Steps Recordings -
Steps to Knowledge - Working file
If this is your first time seeing one of the “Steps to Knowledge”,
then welcome. There are 365 Steps, daily spiritual practices if one seeks to
complete them in a year, but that is not necessary. They can be used by people
of any religious tradition or no religious tradition. They will help one to
become mindful in the world.
The Step today is from the book: Steps to Knowledge: The Book of Inner Knowing. The practices were
brought to the world through Marshall Vian Summers, The Messenger for The New
Message From God. Important background for the Steps is in: “Greater Community Spirituality” and the “Wisdom Books - I and II”.
Hard copies are available from the New Knowledge Library Store. The
Society for the New Message from God also has a Free Book Project. If you need
the books now, PDF files can be found here: http://goo.gl/RJuuGP
Keeping a journal is recommended. If you have a Steps book,
write your reactions and comments, highlight or underline points that strike
you, and date the note. In this way, your Steps book can be a partial journal.
Using the PDF, you can print out pages as you need them, or use
the software to maintain a digital copy where you can enter notes and highlight
text that stands out.
Other modern methods of keeping a journal include having a
document on your PC or phone to keep notes. You could send yourself an email or
use the voice recorder function. It is important to capture insights and
reactions because it is by this means that you can understand change. Sometimes
it may just be a word or short phrase, an image or a scene.
To end this post I again offer the blessing: "May the
presence of the Teachers be with you." In the invocative language of
Knowledge this blessing is: "Nasi Novare Coram" (pronounced NAH-see
no-VAHR-ay co-RAHM)
The short form of Nasi Novare Coram used by students is NNC.
The short form of Nasi Novare Coram used by students is NNC.
NNC
P.S. Often it takes 18 months to get through the Steps once. For
this blog, the pace is one-a-day, but it really makes no difference how fast
you do it, only that you begin, persist and repeat. Posts linked below provide
a trail that may let you have a virtual companion when and if you want one. One
may have to study alone, as I did in the beginning. There are other Steps
students blogging their experience and you might find a person more like you as
a companion, or use a number of such Steps journeys.
Doing Steps with only the texts, messages and your life
experience, including what you may have studied and practiced is your journey.
I’m showing Step comments after the Step, so as not to influence anyone in
advance. It is a wilderness trek to be left to your own wits, but then you can
also listen more closely for guides, angels and teachers, always first saying:
“I surround and protect myself with the Love and the Grace of God.” Thankfully,
I was taught this practice in 1989.
